Tutorial: Build and run Qt examples

This tutorial illustrates how you can open Qt examples in VS Code. To test that your Qt Online Installer installation is successful, open an existing example application project, and then build and run it.

Before you start

Before you start, you have to:

• Install Qt Extension for VS Code
• Register Qt installations

Open a Qt example

1. Go to Command Palette, and then select Qt: Open Qt examples.

   

   If you cannot see any examples, check that the list of Qt versions is not empty.

2. Select an example in the list of examples.

   You can also use tags to filter examples.

3. Select New project to create a new project based on the example project.

   

4. In Name, enter a name for the project.
5. Select Open in new window.

   

6. Select a kit for for building and running the project.
7. Select on the status bar.
8. Select the executable as the launch target to build and run the project.